[ltp] Massive nVidia GPU failure rate in the field, but no recall

[Chris Penn]

What is more important
Nvidia takes charge for bad chips?
or
Who is to blame?

The truth is, Nvidia has supported the Linux community more then most
when it comes to hardware in the last few year.  When i buy a laptop
or a graphics card, I look for Nvidia because I know, from experience,
their hardware works better and drivers are available.  Now if Nvidia
was only supporting 2D graphics for Linux, as ATI use to do, I would
have a serious problem with Nvidia.

There are a lot of issues with Nvidia not bringing their drivers open
source.  I wish they would do this, but as a community, we can only
keep asking.

Chris...

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008, Laurent Gilson wrote:
>> The main source behind the articles (Charlie Demerjian) is a Nvidia
>> hater. He has attacked Nvidia nonstop in the last 4 years. He almost
>> always misseg the point.
>
> The first article I linked is from The EE Times.  The Enquirer might just be
> crap, but The EE Times isn't.
>
> Actually, something like that showing up in EE Times is enough to cause a
> big drop in share prices by itself.  Were it a hoax, nVidia would be suing
> the pants off The EE Times by the end of the day.
>
> But that's beside the point.  I *already* don't touch anything by nVidia
> since it is either utter crap full of silicon bugs (the chipsets), or
> undocumented hardware (GPUs) that won't ever see any of my hard-earned money
> OR waste my even more valuable free time I like to use writing thinkpad-acpi
> and doing Debian work.
>
> What I find most interesting is how the Vendors are dealing with the issue.
> It is very enlightening, and I do want to know how Lenovo will deal with it.
>
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